the difference between good and bad programmers isn't the ability to write code. it's the judgment to know what code should be written. LLMs are great (or rather 'not terrible') at following instructions, and utterly hopeless at saying 'i'm afraid i can't do that, dave'

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

All innovators are unqualified.

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The Kotlin 2.0 release is great, but how can a new compiler be „significantly boosting your daily productivity”?

I can't use work software without hitting bugs every single time, starting to wonder if the problem is me

Ryan Florence same i can’t enjoy anything anymore

Ryan Florence Jonathan Blow decided to track it, and see how many there was in a day, and also ran into a bunch. It's probably not you. youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?si…

Most People create too complex software and don’t care enough about testing and testabilty. That’s why most software is way too buggy. Btw testability will also force you to make your architecture clean and simple.

Celebrating 30 years of Ill Communication with the Characters of Sabotage. The first of four features: Alasondro Alegre as “The Chief” BeastieBoys.lnk.to/IllCommunicati…

„Wir haben zum richtigen Zeitpunkt an der richtigen Stelle entschieden. Und wir haben den Unterschied gemacht für ganz Europa. Das ist eine essentielle Überlebensfrage, das wird ja gerne übersehen.“ Werner Kogler in der #ZIB2 zum #Renaturierungsgesetz.

„ If we write our software with testing in mind, we tend to get a good set of seams, which is a reason why Test Driven Development is such a useful technique.“ martinfowler.com/bliki/LegacySe…

Datomic looks great and inspiring but datomic pro looks like a monster and is closed source so I don't dare to use it. But there should be a free open source database like it, maybe I should work on that.

Takeover weekend. #IllCommuncation30 Capitol Records

I really hope that v0 will add support for previewing svelte components soon.

We're far more interested in a chess match between grandmasters than between AIs, even though the AIs are way better. I'm noticing the same thing with video and art. Once I realize it's made by AI I lose interest, no matter how good it is. Maybe a good sign for human creators?

Wir halten in diesen herausfordernden Zeiten zusammen. Mein tiefstes Mitgefühl gilt allen Betroffenen. Ich wünsche ihnen viel Kraft und Durchhaltevermögen. (1/2)

This thread is very useful for Python noobs like me.

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a friend piped in the entire text of grugbrain.dev into Claude Code as a joke and accidentally created the perfect tool